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...protests will probably prove fruitless. The exclusion was a victory for Kao Liang, 47, the smiling public relations chief of Peking's delegation, who was once a Hsinhua correspondent himself. Kao has firsthand knowledge of how it feels to have credentials lifted. Long rumored to be more of an intelligence operative than a reporter (TIME, Nov. 22), Kao lost his accreditation to India in 1960 because of "biased reporting." Not surprisingly, he scooped Western correspondents by a full 48 hours on a pro-Peking coup in Zanzibar in 1964. A year later, while still nominally a newsman...
...been cut out and could barely resist asking for a description of the hideous operation. Needless to say he was also curious about the aphrodisiacal properties of food, and confesses with wry regret that he postponed his research until too late in life to do the right kind of firsthand job on this fascinating topic...
...most exploited area of the world, the number and variety of legitimate entries would be staggering. Still, on undeniably strong contender is the northeastern region of Brazil, centered about Recife and dominated by its sugar and coffee plantations. This is where Paulo Freire grew up and came to know firsthand the listlessness, hopelessness, and pain of suffering hunger and oppression. Today he is living in the physically comfortable environs of Geneva, Switzerland and probably has not experienced hunger for some years. But he had not forgotten what it was like to share the life of the poor; and his life...
...warning about the hazards of LSD, addressed chiefly to his roommate Dave Bizak, is beginning to reach a far wider audience. It is incorporated into the sound track of a new educational film that shuns the usual dull recital of facts about drugs in favor of a firsthand story about one addict's innermost feelings...
...century the Yugoslavs more often than not have stood on the other side of the barricade, anxiously eyeing their big Communist neighbor whose tutelage they have rejected since 1948. Thus last week as Brezhnev arrived in Belgrade for a three-day visit, the Yugoslavs were anxious to get a firsthand impression of his attitude and intentions toward their country. They knew that their nonaligned status and recent flirtations with China were major irritants to the Russians...